"They're Baaaaaaack" (or were)

Every year, well almost every year, a group of my scuba students, and some of their friends, come to Key Largo for a few days of diving and diving with me. This year was no different and, who I affectionately refer to as: 'my Clines' returned and with a vengeance!

They were eight in number and adding me to the group made for nine of us in total. Having that large of a group, I made our diving arrangements with my friend, Captain Mark, who owns Scuba-Do (http://www.scuba-do.com/) . This was because while his boat will carry up to 14 divers, he limits his capacity to 10 in number. This resulted in our having the whole boat to ourselves and our pick of dive sites!!

One photo above features seven of the eight in the group. John, or Jack, or, oh yeah, 'Jim' is not in the photo as he likes lagging behind and exploring at his own pace. All of the divers in these photographs are wonderful divers and quite fun below and above the water. As you can see when you view the diver with the 'tu-tu' and 'rubber chicken'. I purposely did not capture his face when I made the photograph to protect the innocent, but, we all know it is Frank!

One photograph of a pair of spotted Drums is included as a representation of what we saw during their three days of diving. We saw, a southern stingray, several green moray eels, a couple golden tail eels, and a couple spotted eels. Lobster and Barracuda were also encountered and that is pretty typical of diving in the Key Largo area. We managed to witness the huge schools of Snapper and Goatfish at Snapper Ledge. Did a pair of dives on Molasses Reef and one on French Reef where we saw a huge 'cloud' of Horse-eyed Jacks, and our grande finale dive on the wreck of the Benwood, where the two spotted drumfish live.

We had perfect weather, with air and water temps in the 80s, and, calm seas which turned to flat calm seas during their time here.

The Scuba-Do crew took exceptionally good care of us, and tolerated our collective brand of bad senses of humor! Thank you, Greg, Jarod and Kevin!

'my Clines' have made it official to journey back to Key Largo for more fun diving every year from here on out! I couldn't be happier to hear that, as they are again, a lot of fun and good divers. Thank you, 'Clines'! 'Jack' and Frank included!

I'm not sure what they will come up with for next year, only that it will be funny!

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